Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and Function

Bioinformatics spans many fields of biological research and plays a vital role in mining and analyzing data. Therefore, there is an ever-increasing need for students to understand not only what can be learned from this data, but also how to use basic bioinformatics tools. This activity is designed...

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Main Author:	Barbara J. May
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Society for Microbiology 2013-02-01
Series:	Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Subjects:	microbiology genomics genetics molecular biology
Online Access:	http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/496

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spelling	doaj-0c1806babd7b41b0ba0a4de3adac0fa02020-11-25T01:27:06ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852013-02-0114110.1128/jmbe.v14i1.496280Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and FunctionBarbara J. May0College of St. Benedict/St. John's University Bioinformatics spans many fields of biological research and plays a vital role in mining and analyzing data. Therefore, there is an ever-increasing need for students to understand not only what can be learned from this data, but also how to use basic bioinformatics tools. This activity is designed to provide secondary and undergraduate biology students to a hands-on activity meant to explore and understand gene structure with the use of basic bioinformatic tools. Students are provided an “unknown” sequence from which they are asked to use a free online gene finder program to identify the gene. Students then predict the putative function of this gene with the use of additional online databases. http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/496microbiologygenomicsgeneticsmolecular biology
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title	Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and Function
title_short	Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and Function
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title_fullStr	Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and Function
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publisher	American Society for Microbiology
series	Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
issn	1935-7877 1935-7885
publishDate	2013-02-01
description	Bioinformatics spans many fields of biological research and plays a vital role in mining and analyzing data. Therefore, there is an ever-increasing need for students to understand not only what can be learned from this data, but also how to use basic bioinformatics tools. This activity is designed to provide secondary and undergraduate biology students to a hands-on activity meant to explore and understand gene structure with the use of basic bioinformatic tools. Students are provided an “unknown” sequence from which they are asked to use a free online gene finder program to identify the gene. Students then predict the putative function of this gene with the use of additional online databases.
topic	microbiology genomics genetics molecular biology
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Engaging Students in a Bioinformatics Activity to Introduce Gene Structure and Function

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